Survival Guide : BEST ENSTA ParisTech

What to bring

• Passport or ID Card

• Visa (If you need one, contact us. We will send you an official invitation)

• Health insurance (you can obtain a European Health and Insurance Card at www.ehicard.org for free)

• Sudent card (for example www.isic.org)

• Money for extra food, shopping, drinks during parties

• Camera and the cable for it

• Sleeping bag

• Food and Drinks for International Evening

• Condoms (who knows...)

Very important :• Good mood

• BEST spirit

• Motivation

How to reach the Meeting-Point

The Meeting-Point is Station RER “Cité Universitaire”

First take a look at the Paris metro map : www.ratp.fr and Download the metro map

• If you are already in Paris or arrived by train :

• Just take the metro or RER B to this station

• If you arrive at Roissy Charles de Gaulles Airport :

• Take the RER B to Paris and it goes directly to the station

• If you arrive at Orly Airport :

• Take Orlybus and get off the bus at the station "Jourdan - Tombe Issoire". Then you have to walk on the Boulevard Jourdan until the station "Cité universitaire" (5 min)

• If you arrive at Beauvais Airport :

• You have to take the Ryanair bus to Porte Maillot to reach Paris

• Then, take metro 1 (yellow) until Chatelet

• After that, change to the RER B (Blue), direction South to Cité Universitaire

Some airlines, train, buses companies :

• Air France KLM : www.airfrance.com

• EasyJet : www.easyjet.com

• Ryanair : www.ryanair.com

• Transavia : www.transavia.com

• SNCF (National Train Company) : www.sncf.com

• Eurolines (Bus) : www.eurolines.com

Current Prices

Food & Drinks

• Bread (baguette) : 0.80€

• Sandwich : 4€

• Café : 2€

• Beer : 4€

• Cheese (Camembert) : 3€

• Wine : 5€

• Champagne : 15€

• Frogs : >20€ in a chic restaurant

Leisure

• Cinema ticket : 6.5€

• Discotheque : 15€

• Museum : 3€ to 8€

• Moulin Rouge : 150€

• Pub : 5€ for a beer

• French Kiss : Free if you ask organisers

At the student bar (inside the school)

• Beer : 2€

• Mars, Snickers, ... : 0.80€

• Orange juice : 0.70€

Basic phrases in French

French English

Bonjour Hello

Salut Hi

Au revoir Good Bye

S’il vous plaît Please

Merci Thank you

Désolé Sorry

Oui Yes

Non No

Un ticket s’il vous plaît? One ticket please?

ça va? How are you?

Eau Water

Bière Beer

Santé Cheers!

Je ne parle pas français I don’t speak French

Bisous (French) Kiss

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir? See Moulin rouge (The movie)

Je t’aime I love you

As-tu vu mon soutien-gorges? Have you seen my bra?

Mangez-moi je suis une fraise! Eat me, I’m a strawberry!

Originally founded in 1741, ENSTA is today one of the top French institutes of higher education in engineering. Its students are selected from among the brightest science students of each generation. Situated in Paris, ENSTA offers a comprehensive scientific education, training in a broad range of technological areas, as well as in the management skills necessary to the engineer. Its five laboratories, which enjoy excellent facilities, perform top-level fundamental and applied research.

ENSTA is located half way between two Metro stations : Porte de Versailles (Metro line 12, direction Mairie d'Issy) and Balard (terminus of line 8). Tramway T3 (Pont du Garigliano - Porte d'Ivry) stops right in front of ENSTA (Desnouettes stop)

Visit the website : www.ensta.fr/en for more information.

Address :

32 Boulevard Victor Paris 15Tel: +33 1 45 52 54 01

ParisTech brings together ten of the foremost French institutes of engineering education and

research.

Covering nearly the whole spectrum of science and engineering, it forms an entity of comparable status to the most famous universities of technology around the world.

The member institutes of ParisTech are well-established publicly-owned educational and research institutions, many of which were founded back in the 18th century. Ever since, they have stood at the forefront of technological and scientific developments in their field and have trained a majority of the engineers who have given rise to France's industrial achievements.>> List of the ParisTech institutes

In 1991, the member institutes felt the need to set up a co-ordinating body which would foster closer collaboration among themselves in areas of common interest and thereby acquire international recognition as an entity of sufficient size and importance. ParisTech was thus created with this objective in mind.>> Facts and figures about ParisTech

ParisTech is one of the five partners forming the IDEA League.

Visit the website : www.paristech.org/en for more information.